Refrigerator



(No Model.)

J. LINDLBr REFRIGERATR.

No. 354,916.l

Patented' Dec'. 28, 1888.

N. PEERS, PhuluLlhugmpher. wnshlnghm. D. C.

UNITED STATES lPATENT OFFICE.

. JOSEPH LINDLE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

REFRIGERATOR. l

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,916, dated December28., 1886. v Application filed July 12,1886. serial Na 207,742. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, JOSEPH LTNDLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ice-Boxes and Refrigerators, of which the following is aspecication.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of therefrigerator or ice-box with the parts in place. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the Water and filtering chambers, and Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of a modification of the same.

A is the Water-chamber, B the lter-cham ber, and C the filtered-Waterchamber.

My invention is intended to be an improvement on Letters 'Patent No.240,523, of April 26,1881, No. 320,483, of June 23, 1885, and No.320,484, of June 23, 1885, issued to me for improvements inWater-coolers and refrigerators, and is the result of practicalexperience in the manufacture and operation of my several inventions.

In making a refrigerator containing my present improvements I make,preferably at one end of the same, a water-chamber ofany suitable metalor material, and immediately under the same a filtering-chamber to befilled with charcoal or other suitable filtering material. I prefer tohave these chambers extend across the end of the refrigerator, as shownin the drawings. I then make a third chamber to contain the filteredwater after it has percolated through the charcoal and is ready for use.This third chamber may be placed immediately in, front of thefilteringchamber, as shown in Fig. l, or it may be immediately under thefiltering-chamber, as shown in Fig. 2, or it may be under thefiltering-chamber and extend out Wholly or partially across the bottomof the refrigerator, asv

put under the iilteringchamber, or under and extending out partially orWholly across the bottom of the ice-box, the chamber marked v terial maybe inserted, and by means of which it may be renewed or repacked fromtime to time, as necessary. I. have shown this hole or l door in the topofthe filtering-chamber; but of course it may be located in any otherconvenient position. The water-chamber is provided With holes orperforations, which convey the Water vinto the filtering-chamber, 'and6o the filtering-chamber is also provided with holes or perforations, tocarry the Water from the filtering-chamber into the filteredwaterchamber. From this chamberit may be drawn off for use in any convenientmanner.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' 1. Ina refrigerator, a water-chamber, a filtering-chamber provided with ahole or opening through which access may be had to its 7o interior, anda filtered-water chamber immediately in front of the filter-chamber, allof such chambers communicating with each other, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a refrigerator, a water-chamber, a ltering-chamber provided with ahole or opening through whichaccess may be had to its interior, and afiltered-water chamber immediately under the lter-chamber, all of suchchambers communicating with each other, substantially as described.

3. In a refrigerator, a water-chamber, a liltering-chamberprovided withahole or opening through which access may be had to its interior, and afiltered-water ,chamber under and extending out wholly or partiallyacross the ice-space, all of such chambers communieating with eachother, substantially as described.

.iosEPH LINDLE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE C. Cook, THOMAS A. BANNING.

